Chapter 177 The Rebellion of the Naughty Kids

"Secret room investigation!"

Li Xuan was surprised after seeing the handwriting on the square ice.

There was a brief introduction to the case, and then the rules of today's game were described.

It was actually very simple. Whoever could deduce the truth about the death of the palace maid first would win today.

"Emperor Yongyuan is really getting more and more perverted!"

"Isn't he afraid to scare his children?"

"And the palace maid on the ground wouldn't be for today's game..."

Li Xuan didn't dare to think about it.

But then he realized that he was worrying too much.

After a brief panic, the princes and princesses immediately read the words on the square ice attentively.

Some of them were even quick and had already stepped forward to check the body of the palace maid.

Even the princesses did the same, not avoiding the dead body at all, as if the one who screamed before was not them at all.

"This..."

Li Xuan was a little speechless, and didn't know what to say about the reactions of the princes and princesses.

Even the young kids did the same, laughing and looking for clues.

It seemed that the body on the ground was not a cold corpse, but just a toy for their game.

Such a scene made Li Xuan feel a little scared.

Li Xuan secretly looked up to see Princess Ankang's reaction and found that she was frowning, with a look of pity in her eyes.

Compared with the words on the ice, her eyes stayed more on the body of the palace maid on the ground.

But there was no excessive shock in Princess Ankang's eyes.

Perhaps it was because she had seen her mother die on the hospital bed with her own eyes, so she was no longer so afraid of the dead.

"Your Highness, should we go over and check it out too?"

Yu'er asked a little uneasily.

If it wasn't related to today's game, Yu'er didn't want to push Princess Ankang to a corpse.

Princess Ankang retracted her gaze and said lightly: "No, let's take a look at the rules first."

Princess Ankang carefully read the words on the ice.

Li Xuan was also relieved, although he didn't know what the prize for this competition was.

But for the first time, he didn't want Princess Ankang to win.

"Emperor Yongyuan is also a pervert. He actually let his children compete with a corpse."

"Even if it's a detective case, there's no need to be so real."

Li Xuan shook his head, huddled in Princess Ankang's arms, and observed the others.

Some people have already started to try to answer the questions. I saw a little kid running to Zhao Feng, raised his hand and answered: "Zhao Zongguan, I know how this maid died!"

"Oh?"

"Is His Royal Highness the Eighteenth Prince going to submit his answer?"

Zhao Feng took out a scroll and a brush, and blew on it.

"I have to remind you, Your Highness, that everyone has only one chance to submit an answer. Once it is recorded, there is no way to change it."

"Your Highness, the Eighteenth Prince, are you sure you want to submit your answer now?"

The Eighteenth Prince nodded without hesitation and said, "Zhao, I will submit my answer now. Please record it for me."

This made the other princes and princesses look at their young brother.

The Eighteenth Prince is a well-known naughty child. They don't believe that this kid can solve the puzzle so quickly.

Since the Eighteenth Prince insisted, Zhao Feng didn't persuade him anymore and was ready to record it.

"I'm ready, Your Highness, please speak."

The Eighteenth Prince coughed mysteriously, cleared his throat and submitted his answer.

"This maid was frozen to death!"

Zhao Feng's eyes flashed when he heard it, and he couldn't help but smile while looking at the Eighteenth Prince.

"Your Highness, do you have anything else to add?"

The Eighteenth Prince waved his hand and denied it flatly: "No, that's it!"

"Okay, I'll write down your answer."

Zhao Feng replied seriously.

The other princes and princesses paused, but no one laughed at this answer, but looked at the Eighteenth Prince with a playful look.

"Are you playing tricks?"

Everyone understood the Eighteenth Prince's little trick.

I'm afraid that this kid is not going to investigate the case, but to make trouble.

At a glance, the cause of death of the palace maid is indeed very conspicuous.

The Eighteenth Prince submitted his answer first. If there is no more detailed answer than his, the Eighteenth Prince has some chance of winning because he has taken the lead.

This chance of winning comes from the fact that others can't come up with a better answer than him.

The Eighteenth Prince winked, and the attendant beside him immediately took action.

The eunuch suddenly took action and pushed over the ice cube on the side.

These ice blocks, cut into squares and neatly stacked, collapsed instantly and were about to fall on the body of the palace maid.

Seeing this scene, Li Xuan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and had a different evaluation of this little kid.

In the past, I thought he was just a naughty kid, but I didn't expect him to be quick-witted.

He knew that he couldn't find anything by himself, so he was ready to mess things up.

There was no written on the ice that Zhao Feng had uncovered before that he couldn't do this.

The Eighteenth Prince was not very old, but he could find his own way to win from the rules, which was really not simple.

Maybe because he had won them twice before, Li Xuan had always had a low opinion of Princess Ankang's brothers and sisters, but now it seems that they are not so bad.

At least this little kid in front of him is a bit interesting.

Seeing that the ice was about to hit the body of the palace maid, the other princes and princesses sneered.

"Eighteen, you will suffer a great loss if you look down on your brothers and sisters."

Someone in the crowd said.

Then, several people stepped forward and took a lot of ice cubes one by one, and not even one fell on the body of the palace maid.

After all, at this time, several princes and princesses were surrounding the body of the palace maid to check, and their close servants could not watch their master in danger.

This time, everyone can only bring one attendant.

Therefore, they are all the most trusted among the trusted, and it is necessary to have cultivation.

Even their mothers specially asked them to bring the most loyal old slaves around them.

Many princes and princesses are followed by old eunuchs whose depth cannot be seen, but from their cold eyes, it is not difficult to see that they are all ruthless characters.

There are even many familiar faces that Zhao Feng knows.

Eunuchs also have different promotion paths.

Those who grasp both cultivation and power like Zhao Feng are naturally the most domineering.

But some people realized their shortcomings early and only focused their energy on one side.

These eunuchs who are devoted to martial arts have found suitable masters early and offered their loyalty in exchange for various resources for cultivation.

Although most of them are destined to become tools, they are also the most handy tools in the hands of nobles and have considerable status.

No matter where you are, if you want to stand out, you must either master specialized skills or control a large amount of resources.

With both, he will be invincible.

Zhao Feng is now the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Didn't he start by managing one or two eunuchs?

The Eighteenth Prince saw that his sneak attack didn't work, but he didn't get angry. He just smiled and raised his hands behind his head, revealing a naughty smile.

It seemed that for him, ordering the servants to knock down the ice was just a trivial matter.

You know, next to the body of the palace maid, there were several of his brothers and sisters standing.

Princess Ankang frowned when she saw this scene.

After two consecutive defeats, after getting the space to play, these royal heirs showed their ruthless side.

Yu'er couldn't help but pull Princess Ankang's wheelchair back two steps, not wanting to get involved in the dispute between them.

The Eighteenth Prince was mocked and made his own rebuttal: "It's still unclear who is looking down on whom."

The ice blocks piled up around him suddenly collapsed one after another, and more ice blocks hit the body of the palace maid.

If this one was hit hard, I'm afraid only a piece of meat pie would be left for them to study.

"Eighteen, we agreed to share the reward equally, you can't break your promise!"

"You must call me brother!" The Eighteenth Prince emphasized, and then continued: "Also, when have I ever lied to you!"

The ice cellar suddenly became chaotic, and the attendants began to fight.

Other little kids gathered around the Eighteenth Prince, and it seemed that they had formed an alliance without knowing when.

Li Xuanyi thought that these young guys were just here to make up the numbers and serve as mascots.

But today it seems that they are going to make a big fuss.

They only left an old eunuch to symbolically protect them.

Although they are all naughty kids, they also have their own unique wisdom.

They knew that no one would really harm their lives in the competition, even if they wanted to.

And if there was an accident, Zhao Feng would protect them.

They took advantage of the brats' fearlessness to the extreme.

And taking advantage of this, they just needed to make the scene as chaotic as possible.

In this way, no one could investigate with peace of mind. No matter how unreliable the answer of the Eighteenth Prince was, he would be the biggest candidate for the victory.

Others also saw the Eighteenth Prince's plan and had different reactions.

Li Xuan huddled in Princess Ankang's arms and watched the excitement from a distance.

The rules of today's competition were relatively loose, and the venue was chosen to be a special one, which led to the chaotic scene now.

As the referee, Zhao Feng did not stop their plan at all. He performed light skills and jumped onto the square ice with words engraved on it.

One of the rules on the square ice was that it was not allowed to destroy the square ice, otherwise it would be directly disqualified from the competition.

Therefore, to a certain extent, the square ice was the only safe area in the ice cellar.

For a moment, the ice in the ice cellar continued to break, and the ice chips flew everywhere, making it a mess.

But the little kids were just little kids after all, and even if they gathered together, they were not very impressive.

"Suppress them!"

Whether they were targeted from the beginning or just watching from the sidelines, they all sent out their own attendants to suppress the attendants on the side of the little kids.

It would not be good for them to continue in such a chaotic situation, and it would also waste precious time. If they destroyed the possible clues, it would be even more troublesome.

Winning the game is important.

But how to win the game is more important.

They believe that Zhao Feng will report the process of each game.

Emperor Yongyuan probably has to praise the little kids for winning like this.

But if these princes who are about to become adults do this, they may never be able to be crowned as heirs in this life.

They need to show their abilities as much as possible while winning the game.

Especially the eldest prince who likes to abide by the rules hates the chaos in front of him.

He immediately joined others and launched an expulsion operation against the little kids.

"Kick out all those who don't investigate the case properly!"

The eldest prince's call was immediately echoed by others.

Except for those who didn't care much about winning or losing like the three little ones and were just watching the fun, everyone else joined in.

The little kids' expectations were beautiful, but the reality was too cruel.

It took only a quarter of an hour for the ice cellar to return to peace.

The little kids, along with their injured attendants, were all driven out of the ice cellar and were not allowed to enter again.

The eldest prince and others set a rule that no one should disrupt the scene again, and if anyone violated it, they would be jointly expelled.

This proposal was agreed by most people.

After all, they all wanted to deduce the truth with their own abilities.

The eldest prince sent his attendants to guard the iron door of the ice cellar.

The little kids outside couldn't push it open by themselves, and the injured attendants didn't dare to approach the guarded iron door.

As the iron door was slammed shut, the noisy voices of the little kids were completely isolated.

The ice cellar finally returned to silence, but it was a lot more chaotic than before.

Fortunately, the body of the palace maid was not damaged.

"This eldest prince has some prestige."

Li Xuan looked at the eldest prince, remembered the expulsion he had organized before, and nodded secretly.

And he dared to send out the attendants around him, which seemed to be quite confident in his own strength.

At this time, Princess Ankang suddenly touched Li Xuan's head and whispered in his ear: "Ah Xuan, do you see the ice under the feet of General Manager Zhao?"

Princess Ankang's eyes were fixed on the square ice with words engraved on it, with a mysterious look.

"The secret of this game is hidden there."

Princess Ankang said with a proud tone, showing a confident smile.

Li Xuan was stunned, looked at the square ice, and read the words on it carefully, but did not find anything wrong.

"Meow?"

Li Xuan raised his head and asked in doubt.

"Hehe, you can't guess it."

Princess Ankang just smiled and kept it a secret.

Yu'er saw Princess Ankang and Li Xuan whispering, and she also pricked up her ears curiously.

Seeing that Yu'er was also curious, Princess Ankang pulled her to her side, grabbed one of Yu'er's fingers, and then slowly wrote on Li Xuan's back.

Li Xuan and Yu'er both concentrated their attention to see what Princess Ankang wanted to write.

Princess Ankang wrote very slowly, so Li Xuan and Yu'er could easily distinguish the first word.

"Catch."

Li Xuan and Yu'er looked up at Fang Bing under the feet of Zhao Zongguan, but they found this word.

Then Princess Ankang's strokes did not stop, and she wrote a few more words on Li Xuan's back one after another.

"Whoever catches the real murderer wins!"

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